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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. F. WHIPPLE, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SEAMLESS CLOTHINGMANUFACTURING CO., OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

MILITARY CAP.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 32,849, dated July 16, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. F. VHIPPLE, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Military Cap; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making partof this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of the cap.Fig. 2 is a central section of the same from back to front. Fig. 3 is atop view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correA sponding parts in theseveral figures.

This invention consists of a cap having its crown and a cape for theprotection of the back of the head and neck made of telt or other softmaterial, and having a. peak of leather or other moderately stiffmaterial, to the sides of which the cape is united and by which the capeis kept in proper shape.

A is the crown made of felt of any of the forms-common to soft felthats, or of any other desirable form.

B is the cape shown in the section Fig. 2 to be in the same piece withthe crown.

C is the peak made of the form most commonly adopted for military caps,best shown in Fig. and attached to the front of the crown in the usualmanner. The cape is so Jformed that it stands out from the crown with aninclination of about 450 in a downward direction. Its depth is greatestat the extreme rear, say from three and a half to :tour inches, andgradually diminishes toward the sides, where a depth of about two and ahalf inches will be sutlicient. It is united with the crown A all aroundthe back and as far forward as where the peak C terminates on each side;and from these points it projects forward as shown at a a, in such taperform that it may extend along and lit the sides of the peak to which itis united permanently by sewing, and by whose stiness it is kept inshape.

is the sweat cloth and c the chin-strap, both applied in the usualmanner.

(l is a band passing around the back at the junction of the crown andcape, to give a linished appearance to the cap.

This cap, if made of light color, affords the same protection to thesoldier as an ordinary cap with the cover known as the Havelock, whileit is much more convenient than a cap with a separate cover.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-The military cap having its crown and a cape composed of r'elt or othersoft material, and having the said cape united with the sides of a peakof leather or other moderately stiff material, substantially as hereindescribed.

J. F. WHIPPLE.

Witnesses:

M. M. OaoMPToN, JAMES LAIRD.

